Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 01:53:59 PDT From: Linc Madison Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Supreme Court: White Pages Not Copyrightable Message-ID: Organization: University of California, Berkeley Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 284, Message 4 of 10 Lines: 19 In article Daniel Guilderson (ryan@cs. umb.edu) writes: > By the way, the framers of the US Constitution never intended > copyrights to protect personal information. They were intended to > protect creative works. Fine and well, but please remember that the framers of the U.S. Constitution specifically stated that their intents should NEVER be used as a guide for interpreting the Constitution. Indeed, they carefully shrouded their intent in secrecy, so that only the written document itself could be used. Thus, there is a profound irony in any argument based on "the intent of the framers," since it is inherently self-contradictory. Lincoln Madison = linc@tongue1.berkeley.edu